News and Views
August 12, 2009
Mission Garden Apartments in Santa Cruz will soon join more than 40 other properties supervised by Bay Area management firm the John Stewart Company in mandating what some argue are an unreasonable number of rules and regulations for its tenants to live by.
August 11, 2009
After a renter leaves a foreclosed home, the property deteriorates. This week the Watsonville City Council will consider designating the house a public nuisance in violation of an ordinance requiring registration and maintenance of foreclosed homes.
August 11, 2009
The Perris City Council took a major step toward enacting mandatory rent controls Tuesday night but intends to continue negotiating with the mobile home park owner whose tenants have been seeking rent relief.
August 11, 2009
The owners of Cavalier Mobile Estates, a large, rent-controlled mobile home park in Oceanside, have sued the city and its rent review commission for refusing a request to raise rates.
August 11, 2009
The owner of Besaro Mobile Home Park in Fremont, who is seeking a 43% rent increase for tenants, says he intends to eventually convert the land to another use.
Some residents in Temecula have been concerned about increased crime and other problems in an proposed affordable housing complex. City Officials toured similar, recently-built projects in Orange County and learned that these concerns are likely unfounded.
August 9, 2009
Due to higher vacancy rates and other factors, now may be a good time to negotiate a rent reduction with your landlord according to the Wall Street Journal.
August 9, 2009
A three-year dispute over a potential major rent increase at a mobile home park for individuals 55 and over will be heard by an administrative law judge starting August 10.
August 6, 2009
In this video a KTLA reporter visits a Hemet neighborhood with a high number of foreclosures and interviews tenants from these properties facing eviction.
East Palo Alto officials said Thursday they were on track to submit a new rent control law to San Mateo County in time for it to appear on November ballots.
August 6, 2009
Former West Hollywood city council member, Steve Martin, comments on the recent affirmation by the Court of Appeals of the LA Superior Court's decision which ruled that the Costa Hawkins Act invalidated inclusionary housing requirements for new development.
August 6, 2009
Reporter Michael Turko speaks with tenants in foreclosure situations who are asserting their rights and with San Diego's Tenants Legal Center.
At a Eureka City Council meeting landlords voiced their concerns about a proposed ordinance that aims to improve the city's rental housing conditions by enabling staff to better implement existing codes.
August 5, 2009
San Francisco tenant lawyer and blogger discusses a landlord's implied warranty of habitability.
August 5, 2009
Ronald Reed, the owner of a mobile home park in Capitola plans to close the park and displace its residents. He has retained a property rights attorney who has represented clients that have broken strict rent control agreements at other California mobile home parks.
Apartment dwellers in many of the 16 four-plexes on Mobley Lane in Hemet say they're being evicted as some of the property owners are being foreclosed on.
August 5, 2009
A justice in State Supreme Court has upheld the legality of New York City’s tenant anti-harassment law, which for the first time gave renters the right to sue their landlords in Housing Court for using threats or other disruptive tactics to try to force them out.
August 4, 2009
Mark A. Calabria of the Libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, argues that banks should be allowed to enter into long term leases with tenants to "reduce both the unnecessary eviction of renters and foreclosures on rental properties."
August 3, 2009
In Eureka, creators of the rental housing inspection program have revised the ordinance and will be bringing it before the City Council this week.
August 3, 2009
Deborah Brasket, Executive Director of the Santa Barbara County Action Network, argues that Santa Barbara County needs a rent control ordinance to regulate conversions of mobile-home parks to resident ownership.